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The Network for Justice in Global Investment is a joint effort by citizens and organizations in a variety of countries to challenge one of the most anti-democratic aspects of the global economic order – the rules governing international investment. Read More.

An Italian telecoms firm, Telecom Italia, has walked away from a bitterly-fought arbitration with the Plurinational State of Bolivia with $100 Million (US) in compensation, as well as certain service-provision plans for the future.

Telecom Italia had sought some $250 Million (US) following the 2007 nationalization of its investments in the Bolivian telecoms firm Entel.

Phase One of the Commerce Group vs. the Government of El Salvador Hearings Complete

On Monday, November 15th the Milwaukee based mining company Commerce Group and San Sebastian Mines Inc squared off against the government of El Salvador in the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), a part of the World Bank. The hearing was

A new report setting out key issues and methodologies for conducting human rights impact assessments (HRIAs) for trade and investment agreements is now available on the Human Rights Impact Resource Centre website. There have been widespread calls for States to undertake HRIAs ahead of concluding trade agreements, but limited international consensus on how to do so. The report reviews the conclusions of a recent

WASHINGTON – Fort Worth oilman Dick Moncrief says he had a dream to bring Russian gas to the world market, and a deal with Gazprom dating back to 1997 to make it possible. What happened to destroy the dream and the deal is in dispute. Moncrief Oil International has been trying for five years to get

Yesterday, the Trade Justice Network met again in Ottawa to discuss campaign work against the Canada-EU free trade negotiations. Several important new reports about the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement have come out over the past month, including a legal opinion we commissioned with the Indigenous Environmental Network on the likely impacts of the deal on tar sands

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York telephoned the Uruguay’s president, José Mujica, on Monday morning to pledge his financial assistance to that nation’s fight against the world’s leading cigarette company.

Mr. Bloomberg, a billionaire with a long record of antismoking activism, made the announcement after a front-page article in The New York

Remember the joy shared by millions around the world as we watched as the Chilean miners were rescued one by one? Celebrating their survival made me wish that the global mining industry could find itself in the spotlight too, with lights glaring at each aspect of its destructiveness and criminality.

All levels of government, particularly in Canada, are being targeted by investors for alleged breaches of Chapter 11, NAFTA’s investment chapter, says a new report by CCPA trade analyst Scott Sinclair.

The report documents all 66 known NAFTA investor-state claims (to October 2010) and analyses recent key developments, including the Canadian government’s troubling decision to settle AbitibiBowater’s NAFTA claim